- On the Road with Austin & Santino
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On the Road with Austin & Santino Format Reality Starring Austin Scarlett
Santino RiceCountry of origin United States No. of episodes Active Production Production Location(s) United States Running time 30 minutes Broadcast Original channel Lifetime Original run July 29, 2010 – Present On the Road with Austin & Santino is a reality show on the Lifetime channel that follows fashion designers and former Project Runway contestants Austin Scarlett and Santino Rice as they travel to small towns around the USA and make a custom dress for a woman or girl who has a special occasion coming up (which according to the show is normally 2 days after they arrive). The series premiered on Thursday, July 29, 2010, at 10:30pm (9:30 CST), following the season premier of Season 8 of Project Runway.[1] In an interview Santino stated that he and Austin had been friends for years and the show was their idea.[2]
In the first episode they traveled to Weatherford, Texas to make a dress for a rodeo trick rider, Sadie Lynn. As is typical of the show, they stayed in quarters unique to the area, rather than in a normal hotel or motel. In this case it was a building called the Texas Pythian Home that looked like a castle and was built in 1909 for widows and orphans. Also typical for the show, they buy their dress materials at a local store unique to the town they are in rather than a national chain store. In Weatherford, Austin went to Teskey's Saddle Shop for cowboy related accessories and Santino visited Gibson's Products, a general store, for their fabric.[3]
There is always some interaction between Austin and/or Santino with the recipient or friends and family outside of their dress making quarters. For the Weatherford episode they both watched Sadie perform some horse riding tricks, and that night attended a bonfire with Sadie and her friends and family and fellow trick riders, known as the Cowgirl Chicks. The next day two of the Cowgirl Chicks showed Austin how to do some horse riding tricks and Santino went shopping with Sadie for new cowgirl boots at a store called Bootique.
Each show ends with Austin and Santino introducing their dress recipient to cheering attendees at the event it was created for. In the episodes so far these have been a birthday party, wedding, bachelorette party, graduation party, wedding anniversary party, and mother-daughter beauty pageant. In the case of Sadie Lynn, it was in a large dirt floor equestrian arena at the Silverado gated community and referred to as a "cowgirl ball".[1]
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Categories:- American reality television series
- 2010 American television series debuts
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